This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings! the Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. The...
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.
Peace is our gift to each other.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)You can't do anything about the len...
Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
I no longer ask You for either happiness or paradise; all I ask of You is to listen and let me be aware and worthy of Your listening. I no longer ask You to resolve my questions, only to receive them...
In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been e...
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke.Never shall I forget the small faces of the childre...
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
Some stories are true that never happened.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appe...
We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
My faceless neighbor spoke up:Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.I exploded:What do you care what he said? Would you want us to...